As we explain in the lesson the uses of "so" and "such" are often confused. "So"is used before adjectives and adverbs to give them emphasis. "Such" is used before adjectives and nouns to give greater emphasis. Let's take a look at some examples.

1) SO + ADJECTIVE

My goodness! That music is so loud! I can't hear myself think.

Rob's so funny. He makes everyone in class laugh.

It's not so far away. I went there the other day and it took me less than an hour.

2) SO + ADVERB

Oh, honey, you played so well! You guys beat the pants off the other team.

If that test hadn't been so tricky, I'd have gotten a better grade.

She has so many pairs of shoes that she needed extra closet space!

Dialog: "You're such a child sometimes."

3) SUCH (A) + ADJECTIVE + NOUN

Monica has such beautiful hair, don't you think?

This bookstore sells such great books. You can find anything you need here.

The wait in line was such a long one that we fell asleep at one point.

4) SUCH + A + NOUN

Frank is such a loser. Why did he dump her? She was the best thing in his life.

If he wasn't such a loaf, he could have finished his homework before going out.

Mary's such a clown. She made me laugh so hard milk came out my nose!

DIFFERENT USES OF "BUNCH"Dialog: "You got a bunch of cookie dough rolls here."

There are a number of different uses for the word "bunch". In our dialog it was used as a noun to mean a relatively large amount of a particular item. We use "bunch"with certain fruits to describe them as a group. It can also be used to mean a knot or a gathering of something, like cloth. As a verb "to bunch" can mean to cluster something together, to collect or to congregate into a group. Let's take a look at some examples.

1) NOUN

There were a bunch of people at the party last night.

Mary bought a bunch of grapes at the supermarket yesterday.

A gorilla can go through several bunches of bananas in a single sitting.

She gathered her hair into a great big bunch on the top of her head.

The young Boy Scouts gathered into a bunch around their Scoutmaster to listen to him tell a ghost story.

2) VERB

With the turnstile broken, the people behind me began to bunch up like cattle.

He had lost so much weight that when he put his pants on they slipped off his hips and bunched around his ankles.

He bunched the paper into a ball and tossed it into the trashcan.

Packing is very easy for him; he just bunches all his clothes into a pile and shoves them into his suitcase.

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How many is a couple? And what about a few? How on earth can you have a handful of friends when you can't even fit one of them in your hand? In this lesson we're going to learn the answer to these and other questions about the many zany and abstract quantities we use so frequently in English. There are a ton of them! A ton? That's heavy!